Tips for sorting conferences in CV

[MartinV279]

I am a freshly graduated engineering student and am currently writing my first CV. At the end of my studies I attended one conference as a research paper author and another one as a guest lecturer on the same topic as the previous conference. I suppose both are important to be included in a CV, but I am not sure how to classify both as they are not the same activities (guest lecturer and paper presentation).
Also, I wanted to know if I can include in advance another conference where I am presenting as a research author in approximately one month.
Thank you in advance for the help.

 

[soarce]

The attendance to conferences is important for CV unless you have been involved in some presentations, i.e. oral or poster. If you only participated as author of a research paper then this will appear in your list of articles.

You can also mention that you are preparing a research article for a future conference, put it in you list of articles as "in preparation" or "to be presented at <name_of_the_conference>".

 

[MartinV279]

Thank you for the fast response! On the first conference, I was the only author and did the oral presentation. On the other one, I was invited as guest lecturer on a conference for the same paper as it is a new and upcoming technology/system.
It goes without saying that I need to include the first one, but what about the second one. It's probably not a big deal to be a guest lecturer, but as just graduated it means somewhat more in my opnion.

 

[soarce]

Automatically you should include any oral or poster presentation you gave. If the presentation is accompanied by a research article included in the proceeding of the conference then you should mention it in your list of articles.

In your case: two oral presentations and one research article to mention. Not bad for a freshly graduated student

 

[MartinV279]

Thank you very much!

 

[Choppy]

If the conference organizers specifically invited you to give a talk (without you having submitted an abstract through the regular submission process) that would fall under "invited presentations." This is a big deal and would typically fall under a separate section in your CV.

 

[MartinV279]

If the conference organizers specifically invited you to give a talk (without you having submitted an abstract through the regular submission process) that would fall under "invited presentations." This is a big deal and would typically fall under a separate section in your CV.

So, does this mean that having a subsection "Invited talks/Guest lecture" under the section "Conferences and presentations" is not enough of a emphasis?

 

[Choppy]

So, does this mean that having a subsection "Invited talks/Guest lecture" under the section "Conferences and presentations" is not enough of a emphasis?

No that's fine. That's how most people do it. The point is to highlight an invited presentation.